Production

SwineCast 0204 Show Notes:

• FDA finds melamine in U.S. feed pelleting process
• Maple Leaf plant closings update
• Rabo Bank's Fiona Boal looks at current Canadian production
• Genetic markers on the mind of Dr. Jerry Taylor
• A look at the National Animal Germplasm Repository

SwineCast 0195 Show Notes:

• Update on swine feed contamination and damage containment. Link to teleconference transcription.
  
• Canada's work on developing traceability system.
• Ivy Natural Solutions working to provide product to natural production systems.
• Chromium affect on sow productivity
• Managing your corporate communications (not what you think)

SwineCast 0174

• 10 minute e. Coli test under development at Drexel University
• Canadian BSE update from U.S.D.A.
• Dr. John Harding with an update on Circovirus in Canada
• A swine veterinarian's Christmas Wish List for 2007.
• New company unveiled at World Ag Expo seeks to monetize dairy manu

SwineCast 0169

• How does the theory of attrition figure into your bottom line? Moreso than you think. We talk with veterinarian and U of MN professor John Deen about moving your operation to higher ground through managing for full value